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A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) [Hardcover]

Paula R. Backscheider (Editor), Catherine Ingrassia (Editor)

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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture January 2, 2006
A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts.
  • An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel
  • Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context
  • Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century
  • Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy
  • Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science
  • Considers both canonical and non-canonical literature


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"A team of two dozen prominent scholars ... .Here report on the state of the art in 18th century novel studies. Nearly all the work is cutting edge, and almost every page challenges conventional wisdom ... .Specialists in the early novel will find this wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated work provocative. Highly recommended." CHOICE

Editors Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia have assembled an impressive collection of authors … .Visiting or revisiting a complex cultural topography. ” ECF

"The Variety of texts treated in this volume is rich, unapologetic, and one of its real pleasures." The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies



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A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel and Culture provides an up-to-date resource for the study of this subject, foregrounding those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century. It considers not only the canonical literature of the period, but also contemporaneous cultural texts from which the eighteenth-century novel emerged. The volume is divided into three parts exploring: Formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel Its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period Its lasting legacy. As a whole, the volume explores issues central to the study of the novel in today's theoretical climate, including themes such as globalization, national identity, sexuality, and commerce. This organization allows the Companion to capitalize on cutting-edge scholarship without obscuring more traditional parameters for the study of the eighteenth-century novel, such as narrative authority, print culture, and the development of the novel as a pan-European phenomenon.

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During the last two decades, feminist, Marxist, and New Historicist critics have transformed our understanding of the eighteenth-century novel, but none of them has questioned the iconic status of Robinson Crusoe (1719). Read the first page
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novel body politic, unwitting sibling incest, collusive resistance, seduction paradigms, ethical joy, seduction fiction, seduction writing, national realism, early modern fiction, rent distress, seduction stories, farther adventures, amatory fiction, oriental fiction, dialogic elements, succinct narrative, female novelists, early women writers, dominant fiction, women travel writers, oriental tale, gothic fiction, formal realism, fashion novel
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New York, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Gordon Riots, Maria Edgeworth, Eliza Haywood, Robinson Crusoe, Clarendon Press, Joseph Andrews, Aphra Behn, Los Angeles, Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, Johns Hopkins University Press, Henry Fielding, University of California Press, Samuel Johnson, Tom Jones, Ann Lang, Castle Rackrent, Paradise Lost, Betsy Thoughtless, University of Chicago Press
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